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By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their different trajectories. In particular, I examined the delineation of property rights, alienation of land, rent and tax, inheritance and accumulation of land. Feudal England was a...
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This paper contrasts competing theories and evidence on the nature and significance of African American racial identity. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is best understood as a social norm.
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places of cultural significance are transformed into places of consumption by investigating the relationship between culture … as a resource for identity and culture as an economic resource. …
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The paper intends to draw a possible framework for evaluating the performance of the administration at the central government level. We propose a simple pool-data model in which we tried to make a connection between main macroeconomic variables that are in part the result of government actions...
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The image of the European culture is given by the association of the concepts people – culture – history – territory … features beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify at least two cultural identity constructions on the European … level: a culture of cultures, that is a cultural area with a particular, local, regional and national strong identity, or a …
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Although there is still no consensus on the causes of large differences in income per capita across countries, a growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions...
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The image of the European culture is given by the association of the concepts people-culture-history-territory, which … beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify at least two cultural identity constructions on the European level: a … culture of cultures, that is a cultural area with a particular, local, regional and national strong identity, or a cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258721
to the new geo-political, historical and cultural configurations. Beyond any approach, the image of the European culture … is provided by the association of the concepts people – culture – history – territory. They confer a certain local … specificity due to their characteristics. From this point of view, we can identify besides a European culture, a cultural area of …
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-economic development. It is this issue in governance that this paper will address. It raises interesting questions. When does the …
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ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the …
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